ALBAWABA - As Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stood before the United Nations General Assembly to give his speech, Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan raised a sign during the speech violating diplomatic protocol, causing the security personnel to escort him out and briefly detain him.
Erdan held a photo of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who was detained at the hands of morality police in Iran for not properly wearing the hijab and later tortured to death, with the caption "Iranian women deserve freedom now".
Erdan's protest prompted security personnel to quietly intervene, restrain him, and escort him out of the premises. Although the reason for his detention remained unclear, he was later released.
A spokesperson of the general assembly said: "There was indeed an incident when the permanent representative of Israel walked down the aisle and unfurled a photo during the speech by the president of Iran in the general assembly,".
"UN security spoke to him. At no time was the ambassador detained in any way, shape or form. As far as we are concerned, the incident is closed".
Erdan later took to social media to continue to rail against the Iranian leader. "When President Raisi of Iran, the ‘Butcher of Tehran,’ began his speech, I waved a picture of Mahsa Amini, the innocent Iranian woman who was brutally murdered by the regime one year ago for not wearing a hijab ‘properly". he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"Meanwhile, outside the UN hundreds of Iranians were protesting, begging for help from the international community. I will never stop fighting for the truth and I will always expose the UN’s moral distortions. Those who roll out the red carpet for murderers and antisemites must be held accountable for their actions!".
